Progress Since PRAGMA 20

PRAGMA Future Possibilities

Sapporo, Japan18 – 19 October 2011

In conjunction with GEOGridOrganizer: AIST

Co-Organizers: Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba

Thank you for including PRAGMA

PRAGMA 20

Unwavering Determination, Humility, and Commitment

Highlights• VM Migration

Experiment• Disaster Recovery of key

services• Technology to engage

public in cultural heritage• PRIME in 8th year -

producing results• MURPA in 4th year –

expanding institutions• Stimulating other

advances in members and partners

VM Migration Experiment – Phase 2From Grids to Clouds

• A key demonstration– Building on progress since

PRAGMA 20 (building from panel discussion at PRAGMA 17 in Hanoi)

– The key is automation!– Use of PRAGMA member

technologies (Gfarm)• Future challenges

– Data and computing– Interoperability

• Core Participants:– AIST, NCHC, SDSC/UCSD

• Additional Participants– IU, Osaka, LZU, UH

Phase 1: PRAGMA 20

Phase 2: PRAGMA 21

Disaster Recovery of Key Services• Massive earthquake and resulting tidal wave was

devastating for Japan, AIST systems out of service– NCHC,SDSC/UCSD, other institutions in Japan, and U

Chicago (R Grossman) assistant, migrate services

• Key talk by Masashi Matsuoka!• Can PRAGMA members provide infrastructure to

other members for this type of persistence of key services at a time of disruptions?

Sharing and Preserving Cultural HeritageMy Gallery Interactive

• Multi-touch screen, allowing users to create their own gallery– Content from Museum of Photographic Arts San

Diego (MoPA)– Built on technology developed by PRIME

undergraduate in 2010– Built by PRIME undergraduates in 2011, in

collaborations with mentors• Shown in Knowledge Capital 2011 technology

exhibition held in Osaka, Japan • Plans to deploy at MoPA in fall 2012• Demo and poster • Participants: NICT, UCSD, MoPA

PRIME – Developing Technologies• Integration of the Opal Web Service

Client into the Duckling Portal– Resulted from PRAGMA 20 discussion– CNIC– Demo

• Augmented Reality in Android System with a Disaster Response Application– Prototype of use of “every day”

devices to integrate realtime data onto previous reality

– NCHC• Navi: Covise-Kinert Navigation

Interface with Cultural Heritage Application– NICT, Osaka

PRIME – Imaging and Databases

• Imaging in heart muscle– Auckland

• Automatic image classification in wasps– TFRI

• Database development on damage in NZ – Auckland

PRIME – Bioscience Modeling• Modeling in cardiac

myocytes– Monash University

• Virtual screening, protein model building, influenza virus research – Osaka; CNIC, USM, NTU

MURPA• Expanded Program in 2011 to NCSA

– Will expand again in 2012 to Technion

StudentLocati

on Mentor Title

Geoff Pascoe UCSDSameer Tilak

Cross Network Platform for Environmental Sensor Data Capture and Analysis

Lin Wei UCSD Wilfred LiIntegrating Web Services, Nimrod and Kepler in Biomedical Workflows

James Wetter UCSDJurgen Schulze Real Time Visualisation in Astrophysics

Wai Keung Yiu Man Lung UCSD

Ilkay Altintas

Binding ITK with Kepler for Medical Workflow Imaging

Edgar Kautzner NCSA Ben Smith Telematics in Music Collaboration, Rehearsal and Performance

Jian Zhang NCSAWilliam Gropp

Integration of Guard Parallel Software Debugger into Blue Waters HPC Environment

Partner Updates

• Korean Lake Ecological Observatory Network:– Developed a robust maintenance-

free wireless communication service between water quality sensors in the fields and the KLEON data server,

– Used DataTurbine• EDISON (EDucation-research

Integration through Simulation On the Net) launched by KISTI– Build on e-Airs program – research

and education for CFDs.

PRAGMA’s First 10 Years

Building a FamilyDemonstrable Results

Highlights

• Mobilized community to assist in response to SARS, and assist AIST with recovery of services

• Contributed to launch of local / regional grids• Improved and helped disseminate software• With APGrid PMA promulgated security standards

and practices• Supported conduct of science • Helped launch other grass-roots organizations• Created training and leadership programs

Software of PRAGMA MembersSoftware Institution PRAGMA Enhancement/UseNinf-G AIST / NAREGI Many applicationsGfarm AIST and

U TsukubaVirtualization TestsAvian Flu Grid

Duckling CNIC PRAGMA WorkshopsCSF4 Jilin U Avian Flu GridSCMSWeb Kasetsart U GOCe-AIRS KISTI Tested on PRAGMA GridMgrid Konkuk/Kookmin Avian Flu GridNimrod Toolkit Monash Savannah experiment;

Volcanic Ash DistributionPRIME students

MOGAS NTU - Singapore Grid Operations CenterDataTurbine UCSD Calit2 PRIME, KEON, CREON/ThailandSAGE EVL UIC PRIMECADD NBCR Avian Flu GridOpal Toolkit UCSD NBCR Avian Flu GridINCA UCSD SDSC Grid Operations CenterRocks UCSD SDSC Virtualization Tests

“Next year PRAGMA will be 10 years old. In these last ten years we have established deep and broad collaborations and friendships in the Asia Pacific region. We have also developed best practices in interoperations of grids, used the shared infrastructure to make scientific advances and improve software, leveraged the framework to help foster new grid efforts and new organizations, and established mechanisms to enhance the human capital and strengthen our collaborations.”– Yoshio Tanaka

Model for Collaboration• “By actively participating in a large community such as PRAGMA, we can contribute our

technology to real-world use in science.” Osaka, NICT• “Above all, PRAGMA brings great value to CCST in terms of broadening international

collaboration, engaging applications, publishing scientific papers, and cultivating student.” Jilin University

• “There are always PRAGMA members working on interesting problems ready to push the boundaries of what we do.” Monash University

• “Learning from the PRAGMA collaboration, NCHC has built grid application platforms which have led to extensive involvement from NARL.” NCHC, NARL

• “Several of our own students have benefitted by interacting with [PRIME students]. This has helped us to evolve a very vibrant academic and research group here in our department ….” University of Hyderabad

• “PRAGMA led us to become a member of APGrid PMA, which became a significant component in our development of Thailand National e-Science Infrastructure Consortium. … to becom[ing] a part of GEO Grid collaboration .. . and helped with the setting up of a CREON site [at Racha Island]” NECTEC

• “PRAGMA has given Konkuk University opportunities for global collaboration with excellent research groups in the world and due to such opportunities, KU has become one of a leading institutes in interdisciplinary education and research in Korea.” Konkuk University

• “the exchange of ideas and culture that happened through out these years prepare our researchers to be ready to work in a new globalized world.” Kasetsart University

PRAGMA in 2020

Defining Our FutureRethinking Our Structures and

Processes

Discussing Our Future

• Panels– Strategies and future direction of PRAGMA– Networking and PRAGMA

• Working Groups– What is your future?

• Steering Committee– Talk with Steering Committee!– Synthesize input and strike balance

• Goal is to engage all participants – namely YOU!

Strategies and Future Direction of PRAGMA

• Fang-Pang Lin, NCHC, Telescience• Kai Nan, CNIC, Resources• Phil Papadopoulos, UCSD, Resources• Yoshio Tanaka, AIST, Resources and

GEO• Sornthep Vannarat, NECTEC, GEO

“think deeply about the next 5 years and begin a process of constructing

the ideas, framework, and proposals to reach into the future”

Be Provocative and Constructive

Networking and PRAGMA

• Maxine Brown (UIC)• Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) • George McLaughlin (IU/TransPAC)• Shinji Shimojo (Osaka U)

What is the role of networking in our future?

“how PRAGMA can collaborate with network communities and

how PRAGMA will introduce the latest network technologies”

Challenge to the Working Groups

• What are key challenges for the next five years that PRAGMA can uniquely address?– Who, What?

• Does the current working group structure still make sense?– Overall area, current projects

• Resources

• Telescience • Biosciences

• GEO

Framework for Discussion of Future

• Developing, experimenting with, and exploiting new technologies

• Addressing application areas important to the societal concerns of the region

• Continuing to grow collaborations and people

Does this framework capture the critical components for our success?

What are PRAGMA’s unique contributions?

Current and Future Challenges• People

– Identify and engage (persistently) new researchers– Engage application scientists– Involve students

• Products– Create products for each other, for the broader community

• Innovation– Promote continual innovation

• Obtain joint and coordinated funding– “The problems we face are global, but our funding is local.”– Can we work together with the funding agencies to

address this challenge?

Rest of the Program

• Demonstrations – what is possible• Posters – time for discussions• Key note talks – stimulate thinking– Particular thanks to speakers and colleagues

• Working Group discussions – what is practical• Steering Committee meeting – synthesize

what has happened and where we are going

Thanks to the Organizers and Committee Members

• Program Committee– Yusuke Tanimura (AIST), Kohei Ichikawa (Osaka),

Chao Jin (Monash) and Seok Jong Yu (KISTI)– Chih-Wen Chang (NCHC), Supakit Prueksaaroon

(NECTEC)– Kevin Dong (CNIC), Rommie Amaro (UCI/UCSD)

• Secretariat– Yuko Oshimia (AIST)

Acknowledgements

Organizers• AIST• Osaka University• Tokyo Institute of

Technology• University of Tsukuba

Sponsors• Ministry of Educaion, Sports,

Culture, Science and Technology (MEXT)

• DataDirect Network Inc• Appro International Inc• Argo Graphics• BioGrid Center Kansai• Cray Japan• KDDI R&D Labs Ince• NEC Corporation• SGI Japan• Beyond Computing Co.Ltd

Thank You!